began to decline in health: and he suffered intense anguish of mind at witnessing the calamities of the people he loved so well: for the famine was at this time making fearful havoc among them. In the following year his physicians, hoping that change of air and scene might benefit or restore him, advised him to go to the Continent. He set out on a journey to Rome, partly devotional and partly for health; but his strength failed on the way; and he died at Genoa on the 15th May 1847, at the age of seventy-one. In accordance with his latest wish, his heart was carried to Rome, and his body was brought back to Ireland and buried in Glasnevin, where a stately pillar-tower, after the model of the round towers of old, now marks his resting place. On the preceding page is given the outline of the Frontispiece to this book, the illuminated page from the Book of Mac Durnan. It was produced by first making-partly with the aid of photography-an enlarged copy in Indian ink, four or five times the size of the original, and then photographing this back again to the proper dimensions as here given. On one of the photographic black-and-white copies the artist put in the colours; and the beautiful and faithful copy of the original page thus produced was multiplied with great accuracy by the chromo-lithographic printers. The result is seen in the Frontispiece. The old scribe Mac Durnan had no photography to aid him: he designed and drew the outline to the proper size at once, and afterwards illuminated it. When we remember that every page of his Gospel book was designed and illuminated as elaborately as the page forming our frontispiece, each different from every other, we can, in some degree, appreciate the exquisite skill, invention, and taste of the artist, and the amount of patient labour bestowed on this beautiful book, and on the other books described at pages 13 and 14. Latin words with contractions as they stand in the page. Initium Avangelii dni nri ihu chri filii di sicut scrip in esaia pfeta Ecce mitto anguelum meum Latin words fully written out. Initium Avangelii domini nostri ihesu christi filii dei sicut scriptum est in esaia profeta Ecce mitto anguelum meum Translation. The beginning of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Son of God as it is written in Esaia the prophet Behold I send my angel ना Ornament on top of Devenish Round Tower. From Petrie's "Round Towers," 400. INDEX. [N.B.-The numbers in parentheses show the squares on map in which the Anrad, the Dane, 115. Ardscull, near Athy, (35, 40), 158. Armagh, (17), 71, 76, 92 note, 101, 117, Artaine, near Dublin, 200. Assaroe waterfall, at Ballyshannon, (9, 10), 49, 245. Assemblies or Fairs, see Fes. Athenry, (33), battle of, 159. Athlone, (28, 34), 338, 347, 348, 365, 367 to 371. Athy, (40), II. Aughrim, (33), 270, 371 to 375. "BACK LANE PARLIAMENT," 447. Sir Henry, 241, 243, 246 to 249. Ballahoura Mountains, (50), 268. Ballinasloe, (33), 372. Ballinlough in Roscommon, (27), 270. Ball's Bridge, Limerick, 356, 362. Ballybough Bridge, near Dublin, 111, 115. Ballymote, (15, 21), 259. Ballynahinch in Down, (18), 470. Ballyshannon in Donegal, (9, 10), 49, Ballyvourney in Cork, (55), 268. Baltinglass, (40), James, Eustace, Bangor in Down, (12), 82 note, 83 note, 89, 92 note, 339. Bannockburn, 156. Bannow in Wexford, (52), 132. Bantry, (55, 59), 262, 272. Bantry Bay, (58, 59), 45. Barber, general, 470. Bards, the, 98. Barnewell, son of Lord Trimblestone, Bees, 25. Beeswax used for light, 28. Bell of St. Patrick and Shrine, 121. Benburb, (17), 217, 298 to 301. Bishop's Gate, Derry, 328. Black Battery in Limerick, 363. Blackwater in Munster, (50, 51, 57), Boyle, (21), 253. Boyne, the river, (35, 29, 30), 347. Bragganstown, near Ardee, 162. "Brass money," James's, 325. Brendan, St., of Clonfert, 82 note. Brian Boru, 62, 103 to 107, chaps. xv., Bridges, 33. Brigade, the Irish, 380. Broder the Dane, 108, 110, 117, 118. Bruree, (44), 21 note. Buckingham, marquess of, 443. Burgh, Walter Hussey, 424, 429. mound, 24. Burke, Edmund, 401, 412, 418, 419. first earl of Clanrickard, 208. Burkes, the, 138, 139. See De Burgo. Burrowes, sheriff, 403. Butler, captain, 329, 330. |